Local Culture- people in a particular place who see themselves as a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others. Basically local culture is a group or community of people who have the same experiences, customs and traits and they try to preserve their traits and customs so they can be different. Examples:
http://www.littleswedenusa.com/prior/
Little Sweden, U.S.A The Makah American Indians
Sustained: Custom and tradition Avoiding assimilation and cultural appropriation
Folk Culture-cultural traits (EX: clothes, dwellings, traditions and intuitions) of usually traditional communities.
Examples:
http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/amish.html
Amish
Sustained: Custom and tradition
Popular Culture Popular Culture-cultural traits (EX: dress, diet, music) that identify and are part of today’s changeable, urban-based, media influenced western societies.
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Local Culture- people in a particular place who see themselves as a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.
Basically local culture is a group or community of people who have the same experiences, customs and traits and they try to preserve their traits and customs so they can be different.
Examples:
Little Sweden, U.S.A
The Makah American Indians
Sustained:
Custom and tradition
Avoiding assimilation and cultural appropriation
Folk Culture-cultural traits (EX: clothes, dwellings, traditions and intuitions) of usually traditional communities.
Examples:
Amish
Sustained:
Custom and tradition
Popular Culture
Popular Culture-cultural traits (EX: dress, diet, music) that identify and are part of today’s changeable, urban-based, media influenced western societies.
Examples:
Hollywood
Sustained: Diffusion
Diffusion:
Transportation
Marketing
Communication Networks/ Technology
Time Space Compression- the likelyhood of diffusion depends on connections (communication and transportation)
Distance Decay- the further you are from the hearth, the less likely diffusion is
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(time space compression model)
Authenticity: the accuracy with which a single steriotype image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs
Examples:
Theme Parks
Guinness and the Irish Pub
Pop Culture Video:
Citation:
definitions and examples: H.J de Blij chapter 4
http://cudaaphug.wikispaces.com/file/view/Culture.JPG/263572902/Culture.JPG
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